Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Is God a personification of nature?
I was just sitting around thinking and I came to the realization that gods were personifications of nature, like the sun good, moon god, god of love, etc. And then I realized that God is a personification of ALL of nature. Nature's unpredictability led humans to believe that someone, a creator of all nature, was determining the variables. And interestingly, these religious beliefs were made in a time of kings and rulers, which reflects the whole idea of a creator ruling over his people and doing what is best for them like a king. When in reality, if there is a creator or God that did create the "nature" we live in, it certainly isn't biased towards humans, or any of life for that matter. Yet we feel we are special, or want it so badly that it becomes truth to us, that we personify our own bodies with a soul. Think about that, personifying your own body, just another thing in nature, and personifying it with a soul. It is this crazy idea of personification that we've presumed to be true and the root to any religion. It is this need for happiness that drives any incentive, competition, motivation to do anything, and it is fear of death that creates a useless faith. And some of even accept this fact and say well I'd rather think there was a God because it makes me happy, or that they'd rather believe it than not... you know, just in case... It is pathetic how afraid most people can be, or rather how unaware they are, of any other possible truth that may exist. One could say, where do people get their morals from? And religion does certainly help with that. Morals benefit a society and promote our survival. It is an evolutionary tool. Religion in a sense is an evolutionary tool which is why I am glad it exists to an extent. We can still have morals without divine consequence though, and that in itself isn't moral, that is divine selfishness. I'm not sure what I'm arguing for anymore at this point, I'm just sort of rambling. This isn't really a question, just leave any comments or anything you wanna say down, religious bullshit or not, it's all welcome.
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